A satellite 40 years old with a computer with 16k of memory and a tape recorder can still send information back to earth from 10 billion miles away. Where could we be now?

Not that much further. It’s tempting to think of this kind of thing and think that it’s a small step to colonising planets – but it’s not. We did Voyager because it didn’t have any of the major issues that we would face if we wanted to colonise planets.

It amazes me how much they could do with relatively little technology 40 years ago

and using imperial measurements lol

Cassini programme recently.

Which channel? Can’t find it on iPlayer..

Ah not currently available it seems.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b095vp3p

Finally managed to watch the program. Brilliant and mind boggling.
It did also make me wonder what music would be put on the discs if we repeated it now

The other Voyager program is back on iPlayer:
Voyager: To the Final Frontier: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01nj48v via @bbciplayer